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19 Jan 2010
A couple of days ago we wrote that the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology advised German citizens to switch from Internet Explorer (regardless of the version they use) to an alternative browser for security reasons.
Now, the French government has issued a similar advisory, pointing out that Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 all share a similar vulnerability, which allows malicious hackers to remotely execute arbitrary code.
The fix? CERTA (Centre d’Expertise Gouvernemental de RĂ©ponse et de Traitement des Attaques informatique) proposes a switch to an alternative browser.
This is another serious hit for the world’s most dominant web browser, but also one that’s been losing its marketshare in the last couple of years. Alternative browsers — Firefox, Opera, Safari and others — may not have a perfect security record, but all of them have always been perceived as safer alternatives. This latest vulnerability, discovered after the cyber attacks on Google, does nothing to change that notion.
Tags: france, internet explorer, microsoft, software, web browser
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7 Responses to French Government Also Warns Against Using Internet Explorer
margentieri152
January 19th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
why are you still using IE is my question. you should switch to Mozilla Firefox. its a much more user friendly web browser, but most importantly, its much more secure. because its open source, errors in the code are found and fixed much more quickly than with IE and that increases your online security 10000 fold
http://www.mozilla.com
Kanika
January 21st, 2010 at 9:43 am
install Hijackthis and then do the scan…
where ever you see the entry with LRI internet explorer check that and then click on fix checked…
this should be helpful……
otherwise u can manually delete it from registry….
its a spyware…
tootsie
February 11th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Americans of German descent make up the largest percentage of Americans that are of European descent. About 15% of the U.S. population claims German ancestry.
silencetheevil8
March 16th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Heres the steps (this is a common problem for manually assigned IP from providers like comcast)
1. Connect the game console and any other devices that will be using the internet to the router
2. Disconnect the modem from the router
3. Reset the router with the modem still detatched
4. Reset the modem and attach it to the router
5. Turn on all of the devices.
You did what? RTFM!
March 16th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Are you using Citrix with TCP/IP protocol? If not, unbind it from the card.
Iain
March 25th, 2010 at 1:31 am
Unfortunately no. I went to college in Germany and worked for Siemens for a number of years. I have had the benefit of first hand observation.
The sad truth is that the Holocaust required too much participation of the German people for them to successfully disavow themselves from it. Germany to its credit has worked hard in the years following the Second World War to move beyond its Nazi past and they don't whitewash the Holocaust. Contrast this to the way Japan handles its war crimes and the difference is stark.
Now having said that, again the scale of the Holocaust made it nearly a part of the fabric of the Nazi Regime. And not only Germans were participants. Poles were still killing Jewish refugees until 1947. The Balts, the Ukranians, the Russians, the Romanians, etc, etc. all gave the Germans a helping hand in extermination.
Just imagine the logistics of the rail traffic and the vast number of regular Germans who knew all too well the incredible numbers of people taken on one-way trips to Treblinka, Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau, and so on and so forth.
I am a big fan of the German nation and its people, but I often catch myself thinking about its Nazi past when I am there and it so hard to understand how so much darkness plagued a land of such beauty…and then you notice how perfect it all is…the perfectly clean streets, everything is just so and in its place and suddenly you see how it could happen….
2Trees On a Beach Travel in Time
March 26th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Rebecca De Roche & Fergus Logan. I'm pretty sure on her not so much on him….